Staff of the Department
Head of Department and Professor
- Ken MacGregor BSc Strathclyde MSc PhD Glasgow
Professors
- Edwin Blake BSc (Hons) Wits PhD London
- Pieter Kritzinger MSc (Eng) Wits PhD Waterloo
Adjunct Professors
- Andrew Hutchison MSc HDE UCT PhD Zurich
Associate Professors
- Sonia Berman BSc Rhodes MSc PhD UCT
- Gary Marsden BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Stirling
Senior Lecturers
- James Gain MSc Rhodes PhD Cantab
- Mike Linck MSc PhD UCT
- Patrick Marais MSc UCT DPhil Oxon
- Anet Potgieter MSc PhD Pretoria
- Hussein Suleman MSc UDW PhD VPI&SU
Lecturers
- Marshini Chetty BSc (Hons) UCT
- Donald Cook BSc (Hons) UCT
- Justin Kelleher
- Michelle Kuttel PhD UCT
Lecturers - Academic Development Programme
- Gary Stewart BSc (Hons) UCT
Computer Systems Managers
- Samuel Chetty, MCP
- Mattew West
Administrative Assistant
- Freda Parker
Senior Secretary
- Shanaaz Solomons
Laboratory Assistant
- Bernie Sam
Part-time Research Assistant
- Eve Gill
Professional Activities
S Berman
- Steering Committee member for new Chair of Computer Science at UWC.
- External Examiner of Unisa and UWC courses, and at Rhodes (MSc theses).
- Developed and taught a 3-day course on Databases for the NBN at SA National Bioinformatics Institute (March 2004).
- Member of the NRF Review Panel evaluating NRF grant applications in the ICT Focus Area, and reviewer for SAICSIT and SACJ.
- Mentor of a Mellon Foundation MMUF student working in the field of knowledge management.
D Cook
- Chair of the South African Computer Olympiad Technical committee, and Coach of the South African Olympiad team. He also oversees the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest at UCT and is the UCT site manager.
- Attended the finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Prague where the UCT team reached 15th place out of 75 in the competition.
J Gain
- Women in Computer Graphics Tour of South Africa, October - November
This tour was organised as a joint venture of Afrigraph and ACM SIGGRAPH with the intention of promoting Computer Graphics as a viable career for women in South Africa. A senior European professor and five leading women in the field talked about exciting trends in Computer Graphics world-wide and their work and careers. The tour visited 6 universities (Pretoria, Wits, Rhodes, UPE, Stellenbosch and UCT) and presentations were given to over 450 school pupils and university students.
Figure 1. James Gain with colleagues from the Women in Computer Graphics Tour of South Africa
P Kritzinger
- Responsible for UCT signing a Memorandum of Cooperation with Institut National des Télécommunications, in Evry France.
- Joint Research Agreement was entered into by UCT and IBM Research GmbH, Switzerland with P. Kritzinger as the local research partner.
G Marsden
- External Examiner at UPE and Stellenbosch.
- Sat on ISO 20282 committee (Usability of Consumer Devices).
H Suleman
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organisation to promote the widespread adoption of digital library technology in higher education.
- Worked on the redesign of the NDLTD website, with the assistance of a number of UNESCO-funded student assistants.
- Worked as a consultant for the DISA project, evaluating their current use of technology and recommending future directions, in a technical sense, as their project progresses into its second phase.
Faculty and University Involvement
S Berman
- Set up a new Bioinformatics stream in the Information Technology Programme, in collaboration with colleagues from the NBN and from UCT's Molecular and Cell Biology Department.
- Programme Management Forum member.
- IT Programme Convenor.
- IT Programme Management Committee chair.
- MPSS Programme Committee member.
- Selection committee member for Information Systems posts.
- Skills Development Steering Committee chair.
- As member of WGAY in Science Faculty (Working Group on Alternative Year) studying throughput issues, conducted analysis of student results over the past five years in order to provide input to readmission and registration rules for students.
- Member of QAWG (UCT's Quality Assurance Working Group).
- Member of UCT Task Team on Student Evaluation.
- Participated in UCT MIS Workshop (planning and scoping Management Information System for UCT).
D Cook
- Serves on the Physical Planning Committee.
- Chair of the SCILAB committee.
- Serves on the Faculty IT committee.
J Gain
- Serves on Committee for University Education in Science.
P Marais
- Serves on Committee for University Education in Science.
H Suleman
- Served on the selection committee for the faculty posts created by funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies.
- Member of the Faculty Readmission Review Committee.
- Served on selection committee for Senior Learning Technologies Co-ordinator in CET/CHED.
Staff Development
G Stewart, A Potgieter and H Suleman participated in the year-long New Academic Practitioner Programme (NAPP) in its debut year at UCT, which included general meetings, a 3-day retreat in April and numerous workshops during the course of the year.